Battleground Tracking Poll: Mitt Romney takes lead — DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Mitt Romney has taken a narrow national lead, tightened the gender gap and expanded his edge over President Barack Obama on who would best grow the economy. — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll …

Poll: Obama's lead in Ohio narrows — President Obama is holding on to a five-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Ohio, but that margin has been cut in half since September, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News poll. — Mr. Obama holds a 50 to 45 percent lead …

Post-ABC tracking poll: Obama 49 percent, Romney 48 percent — President Obama and Mitt Romney head into the final debate still deadlocked among likely voters nationally: 49 percent side with the Democratic president, 48 percent with the Republican challenger, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Intelligence Stressed Libya Protest Scenario — In Reports to Obama, CIA Didn't Alter Assessment of Trigger for Violence for 10 Days, Even as Witness Accounts Disputed It — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege …

Biden blasts Romney, Ryan in Ohio — CANTON, Ohio - As President Obama headed to Boca Raton, Florida, for the final debate on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden kicked off a three-day tour of crucial battleground state Ohio. — At his first event at a community center here in Canton …

Wow, CNN ... Check out the front page feature story on CNN right now. A eye-popper even in the long sad tale of CNN's decline. Screen cap after the jump ... CNN front page, 9:14 AM, October 22nd, 2012. — I'll note that the piece itself is not nearly as bad as the headline.

WISCONSIN SENATOR'S SON BEATEN TO PULP BY ANTI-ROMNEY THUGS — Early Friday morning, thugs presumably supporting President Obama beat up the son of Wisconsin State Senator Neal Kedzie outside of his apartment in Whitewater. Kedzie caught the two men removing a Romney sign outside of his apartment around two o'clock in the morning.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @50: A Reconsideration — Today is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised address informing the nation of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, and his intention to make sure they were removed. The Kennedy glorification industry …

The bias of Bob Schieffer: Top 7 moments — In August, I blasted the Commission on Presidential Debate's choices of three Beltway lib journo-tools — CNN's Candy Crowley, PBS's Jim Lehrer and CBS's Bob Schieffer. So far, they've acted just as expected and predicted. As I noted:

Romney Wouldn't Meet Defense Spending Pledge for Years — Mitt Romney's pledge to spend at least 4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product on the military isn't an immediate goal or even one he is sure to meet in a first term as president, according to a defense adviser.

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